METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLUSTERING - Methods and a system for search engine index clustering are described. In an embodiment, a search is performed based on a search query received from a client machine to obtain a list of items. Clusters and their descriptions are retrieved from a cluster index, and the search query is associated with one of the cluster descriptions. An item database is queried with the associated cluster description to identify item sets among the clusters, and a response to the search query is provided to the client machine based on the identified item sets.

2009-12-17

20090313229

AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE IMAGES FOR EFFICIENT RESOURCE NODE BUILDING WITHIN A GRID ENVIRONMENT - A method, system, and program for automated management of software images for efficient resource node building within a grid environment are provided. A grid service detects a current software environment for a grid job within a grid environment, wherein the grid environment includes multiple grid resources. The grid service searches a catalog of multiple software images to determine whether an image for the current software environment matches any software images in the catalog. In particular, each of the software images includes an index into at least one installation image. Further, storage of the software images is structured in the catalog for automated efficient access to each software image by multiple resource nodes within the grid environment. If the grid service does not locate a software image for the current software environment in the catalog, the grid service captures at least one installation image for the current software environment for storage in the catalog as an additional software image.

2009-12-17

20090313230

COMPUTING JOB INFORMATION MANAGING DEVICE, TERMINAL, AND COMPUTING JOB INFORMATION MANAGING SYSTEM - A computing job information managing device assigns computing job identification information independent of an existing computing job controller to a computing job. By a matching process, the device associates a job in which a computer executes computation with a job uniquely assigned identification information by the computing job information managing device. A terminal transmits a request to acquire data of the in-progress data of the computation or the result of the computation to the computing job information managing device, thereby acquiring a combination of the address information about a computer needed to use an interface provided by a program being executed in a computer and the number of an available port.

2009-12-17

20090313231

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BROKERING INFORMATION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF COMMERCIALLY DISTINCT CLIENTS - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for brokering information between a plurality of clients using identifiers defining a plurality of data constructs is disclosed. An exemplary method comprises accepting a new data construct from an authoring entity, assigning a globally unique identifier to the new data construct, storing the new data construct and the assigned globally unique identifier in a database, and brokering between the authoring entity and a second entity commercially distinct from the authoring entity to provide the second entity access to the new data construct by reference to the assigned globally unique identifier of the new data construct or to provide the authoring entity access to an at least one of a plurality of pre-existing data constructs for use with the new data construct by reference to a globally unique identifier of the existing data construct.

2009-12-17

20090313232

Methods and Apparatus to Calculate Audience Estimations - Methods and apparatus for calculating audience estimations are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a subset of stored viewership data and allocating an observation array having a first-dimension index, each indicie of the index associated with one time-period of at least one household datapoint in the subset of stored viewership data. Additionally, the example method includes transferring the identified subset to the observation array, building an extensible markup language (XML) file based on at least one detected characteristic in the observation array, and generating a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the XML file for use with at least one query selection associated with the at least one detected characteristic.

2009-12-17

20090313233

INSPIRATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, INSPIRATION SUPPORT METHOD AND INSPIRATION SUPPORT PROGRAM - An inspiration support apparatus includes: a text database that stores a plurality of texts; a text mining section that analyzes the plurality of texts stored in the text database by text mining, and outputs a text that is a result of the mining; a keyword set database that stores conversion keywords; a keyword extraction section that extracts a keyword from the text that is the result of the mining by using the conversion keywords stored in the keyword set database; a keyword conversion section that converts, with respect to the text that is the result of the mining, the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction section in the text into one of the conversion keywords stored in the keyword set database; and a result output section that outputs the text converted by the keyword conversion section.

2009-12-17

20090313234

CONTENT SEARCHING APPARATUS - A content searching apparatus facilitating a search of a content which a user desires even where relativity between a content and a keyword change includes: a content table storing unit (

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20090313235

SOCIAL NETWORKS SERVICE - A social network service provides trusted, timely and managed communications between a querying individual and an informed individual by optimizing distribution of queries to reflect a requisite amount of expertise necessary (i.e., interest, background, education, demographic attribute, etc.). Those candidate recipients with a rare level of expertise or specialization can specify a desired level of participation, which is respected. In order not to exhaust their availability, those who are less qualified or part of a larger demographic category appropriate for the query are selected to handle queries of lesser difficulty or less specialization. Anonymity if desired by the recipient party can be supported by increasing the pool of candidate recipients so that the querying party cannot reasonably ascertain who is responding. Timeliness of response, as well as satisfaction in the response, is tracked in order to affect redirection of a query.

2009-12-17

20090313236

SEARCHING, SORTING, AND DISPLAYING VIDEO CLIPS AND SOUND FILES BY RELEVANCE - A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed.

2009-12-17

20090313237

GENERATING QUERY SUGGESTIONS FROM SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN CONTENT - A method for suggesting related queries to a user query using semantic relationships that are present in informational content stored in public domains. Semantic relationships between named entities are discovered and the named entities are extracted. The entities are indexed according to the relationships. When a user query is received that includes one of the entities, query suggestions are returned to the user based on indexed relationships corresponding to the entity named in the user query.

2009-12-17

20090313238

SEARCH INDEX FORMAT OPTIMIZATIONS - A search index structure which extends a typical composite index by incorporating an index which is optimized for fast retrieval from storage and which eliminates data which is specific to phrase searching. Other data is represented in a manner which allows it to be calculated rather than stored. Associating variable length entries with logical categories allows their length to be inferred from the category rather than stored. Using delta values between document IDs rather than the ID itself generates a compact, dense symbol set which is efficiently compressed by Huffman encoding or a similar compression method. Using an upper threshold to remove large, and thus rare, delta values from the symbol set prior to encoding further improves the encoding performance.

2009-12-17

20090313239

Adaptive Visual Similarity for Text-Based Image Search Results Re-ranking - Described is a technology in which images initially ranked by some relevance estimate (e.g., according to text-based similarities) are re-ranked according to visual similarity with a user-selected image. A user-selected image is received and classified into an intention class, such as a scenery class, portrait class, and so forth. The intention class is used to determine how visual features of other images compare with visual features of the user-selected image. For example, the comparing operation may use different feature weighting depending on which intention class was determined for the user-selected image. The other images are re-ranked based upon their computed similarity to the user-selected image, and returned as query results. Retuning of the feature weights using actual user-provided relevance feedback is also described.

2009-12-17

20090313240

METHOD OF EDITING RECIPIENT HEADER FIELDS BASED ON EMAIL CONTENT - A method is provided for flagging email messages sent to a user containing inquiries directed to the user comprises defining a natural language model for a set of inquiring phrasal forms in a first data store; defining a list of terms used to identify a first user having an email address managed by a host system in a second data store; accessing the host system to retrieve an email message sent to the email address; parsing a textual content of a body of the email message to generate one or more natural language tokens each corresponding to a text string in the body; accessing the first data store to identify each of the one or more natural language tokens that matches with an inquiring phrasal form; accessing the second data store to determine if any of the text strings corresponding to the one or more natural language tokens that match with an inquiring phrasal form includes a term from the list of terms; and flagging the email message if any of the text strings in the message body corresponding to the one or more natural language tokens that match with an inquiring phrasal form includes a term from the list of terms.

2009-12-17

20090313241

Seeding search engine crawlers using intercepted network traffic - A method includes monitoring data packets exchanged in a computer network over which documents having respective location identifiers are distributed, so as to detect a request to access a given document. A location identifier of the given document is extracted from the request. The location identifier is provided to a search engine that searches for data in a set of the documents, so as to cause the search engine to add the given document to the set.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SEMANTIC DATA RESOURCES - A semantic data resource of a domain is processed by calculating relevance scores for terms which occur in domain corpora and weighting the semantic data resource depending on the relevance scores calculated for these terms. The semantic data resource may include domain-specific terms and relations, such as a domain ontology, a domain terminology and a domain classification. The domain ontology may include a domain-specific-hierarchy of terms assigned to nodes which are connected by edges and may be encoded in a web ontology language. The relevance scores may be chi-square scores which are calculated depending on a frequency of a term in the domain corpora and an expected frequency of the term.

2009-12-17

20090313244

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTEXT-RELATED SOCIAL CONTENT ON WEB PAGES - A method for displaying context-related social content on web pages may comprise a method wherein one or more computer processors cause performance of steps comprising matching at least one cue with content of at least one web page served by a web site a user has currently open in a web browser of the user, said cue containing social content or objects from other web sites than the web site serving the web page the user currently has open in the web browser.

2009-12-17

20090313245

Mixed Media Reality Brokerage Network With Layout-Independent Recognition - A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content as a second medium. The MMR system of the present invention provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types, such as printed paper as a first medium and a digital photograph, digital movie, digital audio file, or web link as a second medium. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including: a method for layout independent MMR recognition, a strip fragment candidate generation process, and a page candidate accumulation process.

2009-12-17

20090313246

DOCUMENT IMPORTANCE CALCULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer readable storage medium stores a program that allows a computer to execute a process comprising: acquiring information related to N documents; determining elements of an N-th square matrix D based on the acquired information, in order that D, a positive real number e, and a column vector u having N elements satisfy e u=D u according to the Perron-Frobenius theorem, each of the elements of D being a positive real number; initializing a column vector v having N elements, each of the elements of v corresponding to each of the elements of u; calculating a column vector w=(D v)/|D v|; updating v in the memory to w; iterating the calculating and the updating, until the v satisfies a predetermined condition; and assigning each of elements of the v to the importance of the document.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK SIZE OPTIMIZATION IN DE-DUPLICATION - The invention provides a method and apparatus for determining sizing of chunk portions in data de-duplication. The method chunks input data into segments where each segment has a first size, assigns an identifier to each of the data segments, assigns an index to each of the identifiers, creates a suffix structure and a longest common prefix structure from the indexes, detects repeated sequences of indexes and non-repeated indexes from the suffix structure and the longest common prefix structure, determines a second size based on said detected repeated sequences and non-repeated indexes, and chunks the input data into a second plurality of data segments each having the second size.

2009-12-17

20090313249

CREATIVE WORK REGISTRY INDEPENDENT SERVER - An independent server (creative work protection server) that provides protection to the creative works of authors/artists by identifying web content in major third party host servers and other creative work content in database of the creative work protection server that contain similarities and reporting back to the authors/artists and major third party host servers. The creative works of the authors/artists may contain one or more of textual content, images, audio and video content. The creative work protection server has components that identify similarities to the works of the authors/artists (the creative works) and provide protection by assisting major third party host servers to delete the content, upon detection of similarities. The service to the authors/artists of the creative works is provided upon service charge basis. The creative work protection server provides provisions for registration, logging in, billing and to receive periodic results via email or webpage interface.

2009-12-17

20090313250

TECHNIQUES FOR FILTER SHARING - Techniques for filter sharing are described. An apparatus may comprise a shared filter manager component for an application program. The shared filter manager component may be operative to manage shared filtering operations for the application program. The shared filter manager component may comprise a shared filter interface module operative to receive a selection for a shared filter component to filter multiple source data objects, and assign the shared filter component to the multiple source data objects. The shared filter manager component may further comprise a shared filter control module communicatively coupled to the shared filter interface module. The shared filter control module may be operative to filter data from the multiple source data objects using the shared filter component. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

2009-12-17

20090313251

Sortable and Updateable Compilation and Archiving Platform and Uses Thereof - A compilation and archiving platform is disclosed that includes at least one piece of information, wherein each piece of information comprises at least one tag and wherein the at least one piece of information is organized in a predetermined logical order in the platform. Methods of forming a compilation platform are also disclosed that include: a) providing at least one piece of information, wherein each piece of information comprises at least one tag; and organizing the at least one piece of information into a predetermined logical order in the platform.

2009-12-17

20090313252

DATABASE ARCHITECTURE FOR SUPPORTING GROUP COMMUNICATIONS AMONG WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A system and method for continually updating a large and substantially continually changing dataset that is accessed by multiple application threads, such as a group identity database of members in communication groups of wireless communication devices. A first server holds the group identity database and, as application threads on the first server access the database to set up group communications, a second server sends new group identity data to update the database, with the new data arriving as discrete, ordered blocks. A first server-resident data-index table is updated with the ordering information of the new data blocks, and a first server-resident checkpointing thread places the ordering information of the new data blocks into a checkpoint cache and checkpoints the ordering information as the new data blocks are updated into the group identity database and verifies the ordering (or version) of the data as against the data-index table.

2009-12-17

20090313253

BUSINESS METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION ENGINE - A method for coordinating the way two subscribing members communicate with the objective of enhancing their relationship, or detect incompatibilities at an early stage that will permit any one of them to opt out. The five phases of the method are: the seed request phase, the seedling phase, the budding phase, the juvenile phase, and the maturation or fruition phase.

2009-12-17

20090313254

USER PHOTO HANDLING AND CONTROL - Architecture for centralized photo storage for user profiles with consent and cardkey system integration. A picture picker can connect to a cardkey/security badge photo system to allow users to choose from badge photos. Consent is also captured by the picker to allow user photos to be used in other applications. Other applications can interact with the photo storage using standard web services and APIs for the user profile and user profile change log services. Centralized storage and insured accessibility enable applications to consume from the photo storage. The photo storage can also function as a virtual directory with distributed storage as utilized for geographical deployments. Extensions of the photo storage can include an add-in for a personal information manager application and a management agent for web-based collaboration and document management to copy photos from/to other directory structures.

2009-12-17

20090313255

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REACHING RESOURCE NEIGHBORHOODS - A method includes determining a source URI and extracting meta data from a resource downloaded from a network; storing the source URI and extracted meta data; and utilizing the stored URI and extracted meta data to formulate a search for another resource located on the network. A computer and computer program code are also provided.

2009-12-17

20090313256

REUSE OF SHARED METADATA ACROSS APPLICATIONS VIA URL PROTOCOL - Techniques for facilitating the sharing of metadata. In one set of embodiments, a metadata document is referenced by a plurality of software applications as a URL, the URL comprising a protocol component identifying a specialized protocol name and a path component identifying a name and namespace of the metadata document. The specialized protocol name indicates that the metadata document is a shared document stored in a shared metadata repository. When an application in the plurality of software applications needs to access the metadata document, the URL is passed to a URL resolver configured to identify the shared metadata repository based on configuration information associated with the application. The metadata document is then retrieved from the shared metadata repository. Since many existing application framework components and standards are adapted to reference metadata documents as URLs, embodiments of the present invention facilitate metadata reuse with minimal or no code changes to the applications or their underlying framework.

2009-12-17

20090313257

MANAGING MULTI-NODE MULTI-VERSION SYSTEMS - A method, system, and computer usable program product for managing multi-node multi-version systems are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A process associates a version identifier with a first version of data available at a first node in the multi-node multi-version system. The version identifier corresponds to the first version of the data. The data includes an update. The process sends the data and the associated version identifier to a second node without learning a second version of data available at the second node. In one embodiment, the first version of data may be a subset of the second version of data. In another embodiment the second version of data may be a subset of the first version of data. The process repeats the sending for each update at the first node.

2009-12-17

20090313258

SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CREATING SERVICE ORDER CONTROL SYSTEM REPORTS - Methods, computer program products, and systems are provided for creating a service order control system (SOCS) report. SOCS data is received from a SOCS database, and input in regard to configuring an output format for a SOCS status report is received. The input includes information detailing at least one data field that will be comprised within the SOCS status report. The SOCS data that is respectively associated with each data field comprised within the SOCS status report is retrieved. As a result, a SOCS status report is generated.

2009-12-17

20090313259

CONTAINER HANDLERS FOR SHARING AND UNSHARING - A container reference such as a library may reference other items and may be shared or unshared among computing devices, computing applications, or users. A sharing handler may be registered for the container reference and may be used in conjunction with the sharing and unsharing of the container reference and the items that are referenced by the container reference. The sharing handler may perform post-processing on the container reference to update the paths for the item references. The paths may be changed from local to remote for items that are shared or from remote to local for items that are unshared.

2009-12-17

20090313260

Methods and systems for assisting information processing by using storage system - In a networked information system, a portion of the information processing is offloaded from servers to a storage system to reduce network traffic and conserve server resources. The information system includes a storage system storing files or objects and having a function which automatically extracts portions of text from the files and transmits the extracted text to the servers. The text extraction is responsive to file requests from the servers. The extracted text and files are stored on the storage system, decreasing the need to send entire files across the network. Thus, by transmitting smaller extracted text data instead of entire files over the network, network performance can be increased through the reduction of traffic. Additionally, the processing strain on physical resources of the servers can be reduced by extracting the text at the storage system rather than at the servers.

2009-12-17

20090313261

PROTECTING A WEB APPLICATION AGAINST ATTACKS THROUGH SHARED FILES - A method of downloading a file from a Web application to a client computer equipped with a Web browser including: the Web browser sending an original request to download the file to a first front server, the original request being addressed to a URL comprising a hostname portion that is independent of the file, the first front server sending a redirection response to the original request, the response specifying a URL comprising a hostname portion that is dependent on the file, the Web browser sending a follow-up request to download the file to a second front server, the follow-up request being addressed to the URL specified in the redirection response, and the second front server downloading the requested file in response to the follow-up request.

2009-12-17

20090313262

SECURING DATA FROM A SHARED DEVICE - A method for securing the use of data on a first device where the data is sent from a second device, the method including registering at least a first application on the first device, starting the at least first application on the first device, transmitting data from the second device to the first device, determining whether the at least first application is registered, determining whether the at least first application is active, granting, based on the determination whether the at least first application is registered and whether the at least first application is active, the at least first application access to the data transmitted from the second device.

2009-12-17

20090313263

Multi-Media Server - A multi-media server capable of connecting to a digital television is provided with a file importing unit for importing a multi-media file from an external device, a storage unit for storing therein the imported multi-media file, a file reproducing unit for reproducing the multi-media file stored in the storage unit, a database for managing the multi-media file stored in the storage unit for each folder, and a folder setting unit for acquiring creation-date data of the imported multi-media file, displaying a list of fixed folder names associated at least with a month of the creation date, and setting one fixed folder name selected from the list as a destination folder name of the imported multi-media file.

2009-12-17

20090313264

DEVICE-SIDE DATA DE-DUPING - A client-side device is capable of wirelessly receiving user data for the device. The device is capable of removing duplicative user data items among data wirelessly received and data already existing on the device. The duplicative data may be “de-duped” even though duplicative data items may arise as a result of synchronization operations using different synchronization engines used to synchronize different sets of data types.

2009-12-17

20090313265

ECOSYSTEM METHOD OF AGGREGATION AND SEARCH AND RELATED TECHNIQUES - Techniques are described for effecting data aggregation in a network. Event notifications are received from a plurality of content sites on the network. Each event notification indicates occurrence of an event associated with a corresponding one of the content sites. Each event corresponds to a change to content associated with the corresponding content site. In response to each event notification, event metadata are generated. The event metadata include a time stamp for the event and change data corresponding to the change to the content. The event metadata are indexed in a plurality of databases with reference to a plurality of index metrics including the time stamp. The indexing of the event metadata for each event occurs within days, hours, or even minutes of receipt of the corresponding event notification thereby enabling retrieving of the changes to the content from the plurality of databases using any of the index metrics in near real time.

2009-12-17

20090313266

Model Based Distributed Application Management - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to model based application management. In aspects, models are defined that include structural and behavioral characteristics, rules, relations, and so forth between entities of an application. An instruction regarding a management function is received. The models are used to generate actions that when executed manage the application in accordance with the instruction.

2009-12-17

20090313267

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING FILES IN A GRAPH-BASED LAYOUT - An adaptive, interactive visual workspace for viewing groups of files based on their relationships. Relationships of files are visualized using iterative refinement of categories through a direct-manipulation graph-based layout. The visual workspace starts with a fully connected graph linking thumbnail images of related files that is then partitioned into neighborhoods in response to a user creating file stacks corresponding to different categories. Normalized spring lengths improve the overall quality of the layout. Different modes for membership in neighborhoods avoid confusing motion of files and help a user to manually organize the workspace. Additionally, retrieved files can be added without having to significantly move the previous files. Different visualization techniques indicate which files are related to each other. An elliptical-shaped window displaying rings of elliptic thumbnail images presents a group of files in an easily visible and space-efficient way. Different zoom rates are used for file location, and surrogate sizes allow users to increase the separation between files while still increasing the surrogate sizes.

2009-12-17

20090313268

TECHNIQUES FOR DYNAMIC CROSS-FILTERING - Techniques for dynamic cross-filtering are described. An apparatus may comprise a filter manager component for an application program. The filter manager component is operative to manage cross-filtering operations for the application program. The filter manager component may comprise a filter control module operative to determine a selection state for a filter data element of a first filter component, and a relationship state for the filter data element of the first filter component with a filter data element of a second filter component. The filter manager component may also comprise a filter interface module communicatively coupled to the filter control module. The filter interface module is operative to dynamically display a different visual indicator for the filter data elements based on the selection state and the relationship state, among other filter criteria or filter states. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

2009-12-17

20090313269

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HASH MNEMONICS - Methods and computing devices enable users to identify documents using a hash value mapped to a word mnemonic for easy recall and comparison. A hash algorithm may be applied a document to generate a distinguishing hash value. The hash value is mapped to a plurality of words to form the mnemonic. To obtain the words, the hash value may be mapped to word indices used to identify particular words in word lists. Word lists may include a list of nouns, a list of verbs, and a list of adverbs or adjectives, so that the resulting three word mnemonics are memorable. More word lists may be used to map hash values to four-, five- or more word mnemonics. The number-to-mnemonic mapping methods may be used to map large numbers, such as account numbers, telephone numbers, etc. into mnemonics which are easier for people to remember and compare.

2009-12-17

20090313270

SEMANTIC FRAME STORE - A semantic frame store system including a semantic frame store configured to provide representation of data items in a semantic frame schema having a plurality of tables. The semantic frame store system and semantic frame store are configured to enable a conceptual structure of the data items to be changed without requiring alteration to the semantic frame schema.

2009-12-17

20090313271

Detecting copied computer source code by examining computer object code - Methods and systems for detecting copied program code are described. The detection may be performed by comparing source code of a first program to object code of a second program. Alternatively, the detection may be performed by comparing object code of a first program to object code of a second program.

2009-12-17

20090313272

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GUIDED USER INTERFACE TO PROCESS WAYMARK RECORDS - A system and method for providing a guided user interface to process waymark records is provided. Categories of published waymark records are maintained in a database. Each category is associated with at least one variable and one or more attributes, which each specify a type of metadata for the variables. The variables and attributes are presented for one of the categories in response to a request from a user. A user interface is applied to process input metadata for a physical object that is received from the user via the user interface. A consistency of the input metadata with the variables and attributes associated with the category is determined. The consistent input metadata is complied as a waymark record for the physical object. The waymark record is published and displayed on a map.

2009-12-17

20090313273

SERVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A service level management (SLM) system where the system learns the structure of a web application, monitors the operation of the application, and controls the processing of incoming requests to achieve optimal performance as defined in a service level agreement (SLA). The system is operative for example in enterprise web applications and in enterprise data centers that deploy web applications and optimally is capable of controlling and maintaining a level of service of web applications.

2009-12-17

20090313274

Persona management system for communications - A system to apply persona styles to written communications. The system includes a communication analyzer and a modification engine coupled to the communication analyzer. The communication analyzer identifies an element of original content of a written communication and determines that the element of the original content of the written communication is incompatible with a selected persona style. The selected persona style defines a communication style. The modification engine modifies the original content of the written communication to replace the element of the original content with a substitute element that is compatible with the selected persona style.

2009-12-17

20090313275

COMPRESS TRANSACTION DATA USING SERIAL MICRO-TRENDS - Compressing transaction data is provided. A current transaction data point is received. A determination is made as to whether the current transaction data point is a first transaction data point or a subsequent transaction data point of a set of transaction data points for a current variable length aggregation record. A further determination is made as to whether the subsequent transaction data point is within a predetermined tolerance of a predicted transaction data point in response to the current transaction data point being the subsequent transaction data point. The subsequent transaction data point is compressed into the current variable length aggregation record in response to the subsequent transaction data point falling within the predetermined tolerance of the predicted transaction data point.

2009-12-17

20090313276

Process and device for data conversion, and computer-readable recording medium storing data conversion program - In a data conversion device for converting data for use in a first-stage service provision unit and a second-stage service provision unit which performs processing in response to a request from the first-stage service provision unit, first converted data is generated by converting one or more special characters included in the input data into one or more neutral characters on basis of neutral-character conversion information stored in a neutral-character conversion storage, and outputted to the first-stage service provision unit; and all or part of one or more neutral characters included in processed data generated by the first-stage service provision unit are each converted into a string of one or more safe characters on the basis of safe-character conversion information stored in a safe-character conversion storage, and outputted to the second-stage service provision unit.

2009-12-17

20090313277

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3-D MAP COMPRESSION AND INTERSECTION DETERMINATION - A system and method is presented that provides for efficiently representing coordinate date of objects such as for buildings, excavations, pipelines, sewers, underground objects and the like. Also provided is a process for compressing representation of a coordinate system, for example, GPS coordinates, to minimize data requirements and to significantly increase overall efficiencies to determine if an existing object might overlap or intersect with a proposed new object. For example, the system and method of the invention may be suitable for use by utilities that have underground plant that requires awareness whether or not a proposed new construction might overlap with the plant.

2009-12-17

20090313278

Database Data Dictionary - Systems and methods are provided a for manipulating data sets. In accordance with one implementation, a computerized system is provided storing, managing, indexing, interrelating, and/or retrieving data sets in a manner independent of the data model. The system includes an element module configured to store and uniquely identify elements and an element relation module configured to store relationships between the elements in the element module. The computerized system may also comprise a class module configured to store attributes of elements in a class and a type definition module configured to define the class and the attributes related to the class. The computerized system may further comprise a state machine module, the state machine module including a state machine transition module and a status module.

2009-12-17

20090313279

SYSTEM FOR DEFINING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS - A system and method include a database having multiple tables with columns containing information. A database application executes queries against the database. An externalized data structure are stored on the system and provide a user modifiable set of key performance indicators facilitating selection of database tables and queries against the tables to provide multiple levels of viewable key performance indicators to users without having to recompile the database application upon modification of the set of key performance indicators.

2009-12-17

20090313280

TECHNIQUES FOR EXTRACTING DATA FROM CONTENT DATABASES - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for extracting data from databases of content management applications. Input is received from a user to connect to a database of a content management application. A connection is established to the database. When the database is not part of a current live instance of the content management application, an emulation is performed so that the database is treated like it is actually attached to the current live instance of the content management application. The user is able to browse the database. Unattached databases of a content management application can be managed using one or more commands, such as using an object model or command line. Orphaned databases can be detected and deleted from the content management application.

2009-12-17

20090313281

MECHANISMS TO PERSIST HIERARCHICAL OBJECT RELATIONS - Mechanisms to persist object relations are provided. A project is defined as a series of interrelated objects having dependencies and relationships with one another. The dependencies and relationships are maintained via a storage organization for files that define the objects within a project storage environment for the project. Thus, the dependencies and relationships are not maintained via hardcoded instructions or references that are included within the files.

2009-12-17

20090313282

AUTOMATIC REQUEST CATEGORIZATION FOR INTERNET APPLICATIONS - Application service requests received by an application hosting framework are automatically differentiated and categorized, and resource usage patterns associated with the requests are predicted. Resource usage data points are successively extracted from the hosting framework. Elements of an initial resource usage pattern matrix are computed from the data points. An estimate for the number of categories of requests is computed from the initial resource usage pattern matrix, where the requests in each category have similar resource usage patterns. Elements of a resource usage signature matrix and request categorization matrix are computed from the estimate for the number of categories of requests and the initial resource usage pattern matrix.

2009-12-17

20090313283

Method and Apparatus for Displaying the Composition of a Data Structure During Runtime - In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method for dynamically displaying, during runtime, the composition of a data structure in a tabular format. During execution of an application, a command indicating the name of a data structure as an argument is executed, thereby causing a dynamic data structure display generator to request the type of the particular data structure whose name is included in the command as an argument. Upon receiving the type and the location of the data structure, the dynamic data structure display generator selects a process to analyze the data structure. Using the selected process, the data structure is analyzed and its elements are systematically communicated to a user interface service, which is responsible for displaying, in a tabular format, the elements (names and values) of the data structure.

2009-12-17

20090313284

Data Integration Method - A data integration method includes the steps of: selecting an item from a first data set as a key variable; generating a second data set including the key variable; using the key variable to associate the first and second data sets and inputting the first and second data sets into a processor to generate a third data set; and checking an accuracy of the third data set against a criterion and storing the third data set if the criterion is met. With this data integration method, a set having a small number of samples can be expanded so as to have a larger number of samples, solving the problem of asymmetry between active and passive data sets and thereby maximizing data use.

2009-12-17

20090313285

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING THE FANTASIES OF USERS BASED ON USER PROFILES/PREFERENCES - Systems and methods for facilitating highly tailored and user specific fantasies are provided. Example embodiments may include building a psychological profile of a user for the purpose of providing a fantasy based result. Example embodiments may include refining a user's preferences, especially visual preferences, through a series of visual image/movie-clip sets. The user may be able to select or otherwise indicate a preferred image in the set. Example embodiments may include building a detailed profile of a user based on both the psychological profile and refined image preferences. The provided result may include highly personalized visual content, for example, fantasy based adult entertainment. The provided result may also match users with similar profiles together for the purpose of sharing content or content ratings. Additionally or alternatively, users with reciprocal profiles may be matched for the purpose of anonymous or face-to-face role playing encounters. Example embodiments of the present invention allow users to explore very specific fantasies in a number of ways based on that user's profile/preferences.

2009-12-17

20090313286

GENERATING TRAINING DATA FROM CLICK LOGS - Data from a click log may be used to generate training data for a search engine. The pages clicked as well as the pages skipped by a user may be used to assess the relevance of a page to a query. Labels for training data may be generated based on data from the click log. The labels may pertain to the relevance of a page to a query.

2009-12-17

20090313287

IDENTIFYING OBJECTS WITHIN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAY - Data is commonly stored in multidimensional arrays. Users and computer applications may request or interact with the data objects. As larger amounts of data are stored, the resources used to maintain and manipulate the data increase. An effective way to manage resources is to operate on an index of ranges that identify selected data within a multidimensional array. The index of ranges is associated with only a subset of data objects, instead of the entire multidimensional array. A range may comprise multiple dimensions (e.g. row and column) that are indexed by start and end indexes. Using the index of ranges to access data is efficient because the index of ranges is kept in sorted order, allowing for a binary search for locating and accessing specified data within the multidimensional array. The index of ranges is updated to reflect operations within the multidimensional array, such as, selecting new data or removing data, for example.

2009-12-17

20090313288

METHOD OF IMPROVED HIERARCHICAL XML DATABASES - A method is provided for initializing an XML database. The method includes the steps of parsing an XML file to extract a plurality of records, the records arranged in a hierarchical form, creating, for each record, a plurality of class objects, each class having associated therewith one or more attributes, and creating a plurality of handling methods for each of one or more attributes associated with each class object, the handling methods defining how the database can be accessed.

2009-12-17

20090313289

Waveform Observing Apparatus and System Thereof - There are provided a waveform observing apparatus and the system thereof in which, when a removable storage medium is inserted into the waveform observing apparatus to capture a copy of measured data, a difference copy is made while including the latest measured data collected by the waveform observing apparatus at the time, sixteenth and seventeenth measured data temporarily stored in a buffer memory are filed and stored in the state of being housed in a fourth measured data file, into a body memory. Copies of a third measured data file including part of the difference copy and a new fourth measured data file are written into the USB memory. When the USB memory is inserted into a personal computer, a hard disk of the personal computer comes into a state where its third measured data file is overwritten and stored and the fourth measured data file is newly stored.

2009-12-17

20090313290

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROXYING OF DEVICES AND SERVICES USING OVERLAY NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus for proxying of devices and services using overlay networks. A method for operating a proxy includes obtaining meta-data associated with at least one of a device and a service, generating a searchable index of the meta-data, and publishing the searchable index on the overlay network as at least one of a distributed index and a centralized index. Another method includes receiving a request from a device or a service using a non overlay protocol to receive at least one of data and services from the overlay network, searching an index of meta-data on the overlay network based on the request, identifying a node associated with the at least one of data and services based on the index, establishing a direct connection with the node, and obtaining the at least one of data and services using the direct connection.

2009-12-17

20090313291

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING AND USING A SOCIAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE PEOPLE IN LIFE ISSUES - Embodiments described herein provide numerous applications and implementations of a social network to facilitate individuals to resolve various life issues. These issues may include issues that arise when individuals or families relocate, including logistic problems, assimilation of family members in a community, and roommate pairings. As will be described, embodiments described herein greatly facilitate corporations in relocating their employees logistically, and also assist employees and their families with life issues that may determine whether the employees' relocation will be a success.

2009-12-17

20090313292

CUSTOMIZABLE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for managing information includes: forming a meta data structure containing first information; forming an application data structure containing second information; establishing an association between the meta data structure and the application data structure wherein the first information has the second information associated therewith using a server; and displaying the association on a display.

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANNOTATION USING SEMANTIC DISTANCE LEARNING - Images are automatically annotated using semantic distance learning. Training images are manually annotated and partitioned into semantic clusters. Semantic distance functions (SDFs) are learned for the clusters. The SDF for each cluster is used to compute semantic distance scores between a new image and each image in the cluster. The scores for each cluster are used to generate a ranking list which ranks each image in the cluster according to its semantic distance from the new image. An association probability is estimated for each cluster which specifies the probability of the new image being semantically associated with the cluster. Cluster-specific probabilistic annotations for the new image are generated from the manual annotations for the images in each cluster. The association probabilities and cluster-specific probabilistic annotations for all the clusters are used to generate final annotations for the new image.

2009-12-17

20090313295

System and Process for Connecting Media Content - A system for correlating a user's interests to media content, said system comprising: (a) at least one data store comprising media content data relating to people, works, and tags; (b) a relationship generator configured to generate direct relationships among said people, works and tags; (c) a connection module to generate connections between a primary person, work or tag and a first set of said people, works, and tags, wherein each person, work and tag of said first set has a direct relationship with said primary person, work or tag; and (d) a display module for causing the display of at least a portion of said first set of said people, works and tags.

2009-12-17

20090313296

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING STORAGE - The invention provides a method and apparatus for managing stored objects. The method includes providing an object management policy for stored objects, analyzing the object management policy to identify information required to execute the object management policy, acquiring the identified information from a protection repository for the stored objects, and executing the object management policy based on the acquired information to manage the stored objects.

2009-12-17

20090313297

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING SELECTIVE ATTRIBUTE ACQUISITION AND CLAUSE EVALUATION FOR POLICY BASED STORAGE MANAGEMENT - The invention provides a method and apparatus for managing stored data objects. The method includes detecting involved attributes of stored data objects based on object management rules, determining expected data storage management costs for each possible order of attribute acquisition for the detected attributes, detecting an order of attribute acquisition that has a data storage management cost which is minimal or below a predetermined threshold, acquiring the attributes of the stored data objects based on the detected order of attribute acquisition, and executing an object management policy based on the acquired attributes to manage the stored objects at the low cost for object storage, attribute acquisition and policy evaluation.

2009-12-17

20090313298

System and Method for Model-Driven Object Store - Disclosed is a system and method for model-driven datastore. The model-driven datastore includes an object persistence model editor for developing specifc object persistence models based on an object persistence metamodel. The object persistence model consists of object model, object access pattern and user defined functions. The object model consists of a collection of object definition, said object defintion supports at least one basic type or structure type of attributes. The object access pattern defines the access path that are used to retrieve the object instances, where the access path is consists of a collection of actions. The actions comprise at least one of the following a self action, parent action, or children action. User defined functions are declaratively defined and supports group operators. The model driven datastore further includes a model transformer for generating an object index based on object access patterns and executable code for supporting object access patterns and user defined functions and an object store manager for executing generated code that allows applications to create, update, retrivel or persist objects.

METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING ACTIONS ASSOCIATED TO OPERATIONS ON RICH MEDIA OBJECTS - Utilizing a service oriented architecture middleware to allow services to process media, the method including dynamically defining one or more media properties and operations available to a service, generating a media object with selected properties and operations, communicating the media object to the services, dynamically defining an action associated to an operation in response to an operation request from the service, implementing the action and communicating the result of the action to the service.

2009-12-17

20090313301

MULTIMEDIA SEARCH SYSTEM - A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

2009-12-17

20090313302

AUTOMATIC SONG SELECTION - A method for automatically selecting a plurality of media for rendering on an electronic device includes identifying at least first and second characteristics of media to be selected, wherein the first and second characteristics are different from one another. Further, an initial media corresponding to the first characteristic and an end media corresponding to the second characteristic are selected. Then, at least one intermediate media is selected based on a trend from the first characteristic to the second characteristic.

2009-12-17

20090313303

Method for playing digital media files with a digital media player using a plurality of playlists - A method for playing digital media files with a digital media player using a plurality of playlists is disclosed. One embodiment uses a plurality of playlists—instead of a single playlist—to reference a given pool of digital media files. After the songs of one playlist have been played, another playlist is selected, and songs from that playlist are played. Since the playlist selection is automatically made by the digital media player while it is offline, a fresh listening experience is created without requiring the user to connect the digital media player to the Internet. Preferably, each playlist is purposefully curated to ensure that the play order keeps the experience commensurate with a particular brand message.

2009-12-17

20090313304

Systems and Methods for Capturing, Organizing, and Sharing Data - A method for saving visual data that was captured from a data source is disclosed. Visual data is received via a network from a computing device coupled to the network. The visual data includes image data and non-image data. An item of content is generated based on the selected visual data from the data source for storage in a database coupled to the network.

2009-12-17

20090313305

System and Method for Generation of Complex Signatures for Multimedia Data Content - A method and system for generating a complex signature of a multimedia data element. The method comprises partitioning the multimedia data element recursively until a minimum size multimedia data element is reached; generating a signature for each minimum size multimedia data element; assembling at least a complex signature comprising a plurality of signatures of the minimum size multimedia data elements; and storing the signatures of each of the minimum size multimedia data elements and the complex signature of the multimedia data element in association with the multimedia data element and partitions thereof in a storage unit.

2009-12-17

20090313306

Method of Effectively Managing Database System for Mobile Number Portability - A method of effectively managing a database system for mobile number portability (MNP) including constructing a database associated with the MNP of a neutral organization including a first database connected to number portability management systems of a plurality of wired or wireless telecommunications service providers and a second database connected to subscriber managements systems of the wireless telecommunications service providers; transmitting data required for number portability call processing to the first database after the number portability processing for the wired telecommunications service providers has been completed by the second database; and allocating associated information to the wired or wireless telecommunications service providers requiring the number portability call processing by the first database based on the data. Accordingly, a conventional database management system can be modified, and a specific packet structure can be employed to detect errors that occur during transmission and reception of customer information for the number portability processing. Therefore, it is possible to construct effective subscriber management systems for mobile number portability.

2009-12-17

20090313307

MANIPULATION OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT INFORMATION - A device associated with a network receives a request to modify a sub-attribute of an attribute associated with a software object that represents one of a representation of a managed resource or a collection of attributes associated with the managed resource. The device also modifies the sub-attribute of the software object based on the request, and sends a notification about the sub-attribute that has been modified.

2009-12-17

20090313308

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPARING PROCESS DESIGNS - This invention relates to a data comparison tool, method and computer program product for analysing a set of data, the set of data being derived from an original set of data, comprising: comparing the derived set of data with the original set of data; generating a hyperlink to represent each difference between the derived and original data set, each difference being a changed item, an additional item, or a missing data item; providing at least one agent that is activated on selection of the hyperlink to operate on the changed, additional or missing data item; whereby a list of hyperlinks is generated to represent all the differences of the derived and original data set and selecting one of the hyperlinks will execute an agent to operate on a single data item in one of the data sets. An editor agent is provided for allowing the user to confirm or make further changes to the data item. An undo agent is provided for undoing the difference wherein a changed item is changed back, an additional item is removed and a missing item is replaced.

2009-12-17

20090313309

Data Pattern for Storing Information, Including Associated Version and Audit Information for Use in Data Management - Information is stored in a data pattern. The data pattern includes an identity table, a version table that includes at least one reference to the identity table, and an audit table that includes at least one reference to the version table. The identity table stores information identifying the information. The version table stores version information identifying one or more versions of the information identified in the identity table. The audit table stores audit information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information was modified. The audit table may also store effectiveness information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information is in effect.

2009-12-17

20090313310

MANAGING A DYNAMIC DATA POOL ON AD-HOC NETWORKS - A dynamic data pool on ad-hoc networks. The present example provides for a “swarm” of nodes that share or provide a “repository” of shared dynamic data. The swarm is a collection of nodes connected via networks, including but not limited to Wireless personal area network (“PAN”), local area network (“LAN”), wide area network (“WAN”) and/or the like. The dynamic data pool may be implemented by an application program, with network connectivity provided through programs constructed in a layered structure (“network stack”) or the like. Provision is made for initializing the swarm, for nodes entering and leaving the swarm, and other functions for managing the swarm.

2009-12-17

20090313311

MIXED MODE SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION SYSTEM - A replication system that includes an asynchronous replication mode and a synchronous replication mode replicates data associated with a plurality of transactions. The replication system includes one or more target nodes connected via communication media in a topology. Each target node includes a database and a plurality of appliers allocated thereto. Each transaction has one or more transaction steps or operations. A first set of transaction steps or operations are allocated to the plurality of appliers on an object-by-object basis when the replication system operates in asynchronous replication mode. A second set of transaction steps or operations are allocated to the plurality of appliers on a transaction-by-transaction basis when the replication system operates in synchronous replication mode. The replication system further includes one or more originating nodes, and the requests for the first and second sets of transaction steps or operations to execute on an originating node can be initiated during the same time period.

2009-12-17

20090313312

Method of Enhancing De-Duplication Impact by Preferential Selection of Master Copy to be Retained - A method and apparatus are provided for enhancing the impact of data de-duplication by preferential selection of the master copy to be retained based on current loads and performance metrics of the storage media devices. The computer system is configured to take as input the identified duplicate copies of data and evaluating their locations in storage devices to determine the cumulative affects of retaining one of the identified duplicate copies as a master copy and optionally allocating a new location if needed. Once a master copy has been designated, the remaining identified duplicate copies are removed from storage.

TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS ON RADIX-2 PLATFORMS - A technique for performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) includes storing, in a single-port memory, multiple signal points. A first group of consecutive ones of the multiple signal points are fetched (from a first line of the single-port memory) to a first input register associated with a processor that includes multiple arithmetic units (AUs) that are each configured to perform multiply accumulate (MAC) operations. A second group of consecutive ones of the multiple signal points are then fetched (from a second line of the single-port memory) to a second input register associated with the processor. Selected pairs of the multiple signal points are then loaded (one from each of the first and second input registers for each pair) into the multiple arithmetic units during an initial butterfly stage. Radix-2 butterfly operations are then performed on the selected pairs of the multiple signal points (using the multiple AUs) to provide respective output elements.

2009-12-17

20090313315

N-digit subtraction unit, N-digit subtraction module, N-digit addition unit and N-digit addition module - Provided are N-digit addition and subtraction units and N-digit addition and subtraction modules in which borrowing and carrying are not propagated in modules having basic digits. In the units and modules, an output pattern of results of addition and subtraction is predicted based on a relation between an augend and an addend and a relation between a minuend and a subtrahend, respectively, thereby preventing borrowing and carrying from being propagated in modules having basic digits.

2009-12-17

20090313316

EMBEDDED COMPOSITE INDICATORS OF DOCUMENT STATUS - A document, which may be referred to as a “citing document,” is displayed. The display may comprise the text of the citing document, which may comprise one or more citations to one or more other documents. As displayed, one or more of the citations is associated with indicia of a value associated with the respective cited document. For example, a display of a judicial opinion may include citations to one or more other opinions, and one or more of the citations may be preceded by icons reflecting an estimate of the precedential value of each respective cited opinion. Computerized systems and methods for causing such display are also provided.

2009-12-17

20090313317

Wider Delivery Of Multimedia Content - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for streaming multimedia content available at a content server with a determinate bandwidth to multiple clients. A client agent provided on each of the clients requests a server agent on a content server for multimedia content. First connections are established to the content server by a predefined number of first clients from the requesting clients using the client agent. The predefined number is determined by the bandwidth available at the content server. The server agent then transfers the multimedia content to the first clients by utilizing the first connections. The server agent identifies the first clients for availability of a predetermined bandwidth for streaming multimedia content to second clients. Second connections are then established between the identified first clients and the second clients. The identified first clients then transfer the multimedia content to the second clients by utilizing the second connections.

2009-12-17

20090313318

System and method using interpretation filters for commercial data insertion into mobile computing devices - The present invention teaches a method to alter browser programming responses by the substitution of certain client-server communications commands allowing certain browser requests to be redirected to alternate servers for further interpretation and subsequent server responses. The purpose of this method is injection of custom content into browser-based device displays without disruption of the original page content. This method accomplishes the task without requiring additional plug-in applications, browser or client device code modifications. The invention teaches the use of a local proxy server or embedded device but also claims the use of remote network proxy servers to transparently alter the command request sequence of the client browser in order to request alternate information other than that normally requested by the browser for interpretation and display. The present invention also teaches how to identify web publishers or domain owners for registration notification and possible financial compensation.

2009-12-17

20090313319

System and Method for Dynamic Partitioning of Applications in Client-Server Environments - A method for dynamically deploying an application in a client-server environment includes evaluating at least one constraint of at least one of the application or the client-server environment and partitioning the placement and execution of components of the application in the client-server environment dynamically at runtime according to the at least one constraint.

2009-12-17

20090313320

BRANDED AND COMARKETED DOMAIN-BASED THICK CLIENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods of the present invention allow for a thick client which may be provided with a domain name in a partnership between a hosting provider, an ISP and/or a thick client retailer. The client may be used to access a remote computer or server in the hosting provider's data center.

2009-12-17

20090313321

BRANDED AND COMARKETED DOMAIN-BASED THIN CLIENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods of the present invention allow for a thin client which may be provided with a domain name in a partnership between a hosting provider, an ISP and/or a thin client retailer. The client may be used to access a remote computer or server in the hosting provider's data center.

2009-12-17

20090313322

Application Streaming Over HTTP - Disclosed are systems and methods for application streaming over HTTP. A virtual application running on a host computing device may detect the need for a page of memory that is not present on the host computing device. Accordingly, the virtual application may send a request to a virtual application server, seeking the absent memory page. The virtual application server may send to a web server an HTTP GET byte range request for the desired memory page. The web server may retrieve the requested block, which may be a portion of the virtual application image file. The requested data is returned to the host computing device via the virtual application server. The virtual application continues running on the host device using the requested data.

2009-12-17

20090313323

Method and System for Controlling Bus Access - A system and method for controlling communications between a plurality of clients and a central component. An embodiment of the invention includes one or more buses that connect the clients and the central component. This embodiment also includes a control module that is configured to receive ASK messages from the clients and issue GO commands to the clients. Each ASK message represents a request from a client to access the central component. Each GO command to the client represents permission for that client to access the central component. The control module comprises delay stages that delay the GO command. The delays may be different from client to client. The number of delay stages is chosen so that for all clients, the delay between the issuance of a GO command and the receipt at the central component of communications from the clients is the same.

2009-12-17

20090313324

INTERACTIVE VIEWING OF MEDIA CONTENT - This disclosure describes a network system that provides media content to a user. The user may become stimulated by the media content and desire to receive information about the media content that stimulated the user's interest. This disclosure describes techniques providing information regarding events within the media content that stimulated the user's interest, i.e., stimuli information.

2009-12-17

20090313325

Distributed Technique for Cascaded Data Aggregation in Parallel Fashion - Methods and apparatus are provided that access and present information associated with dynamic communities in an efficient and highly scalable manner. Dynamic communities are formed based on a trigger, which may be a command, a request for information, or an event notification. An apparatus may receive notification of the trigger and form a dynamic community from one or more data sources, such as social-networking websites and enterprise data sources. Sub-triggers may be generated based on the trigger and the dynamic community. The sub-triggers may be sent from the apparatus. A result may then be generated based on received responses to the sub-triggers.

2009-12-17

20090313326

DEVICE MANAGEMENT USING EVENT - In related art, the terminal can receive a particular task from a server, and perform the received particular task, only after the terminal reports to the server that a particular event has occurred. But, according to the present invention, the server provides the particular task in advance of the occurrence of the particular event. Therefore, the particular task can be performed by the terminal as soon as a particular event is occurred, so a waste of the network resources can be reduced. Meanwhile, according to the present invention, a routing service is provided between elements within the terminal, so that the elements within the terminal can be separated. In addition, according to the present invention, a source number and a registration number are used for the routing service, so that the routing service can be accurately operated. Moreover, malfunction of a processing unit can be prevented through the source number and the registration number, and performing of a task by a malicious user can be prevented.